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A Branch of Bamboo 墨竹圖

Artist Inscription: (1) – painting, lower right
2 columns, standard script
雲林生寫，臘月九日。
Drawn by Master Cloud Forest [Ni Zan], on the ninth day of the la [twelfth] lunar-month.2

Signature: 雲林生
Yunlin sheng [Master Cloud Forest]
Date: 臘月九日
ninth day of the la [twelfth] lunar-month
Seals: none

https://asia.si.edu/object/F1915.36d

Ni Zan 倪瓚

Label slip: Unidentified.
Pasted on cloth cover, upper right.
Four characters, standard script. No signature, date, seals.
墨林叢翰
Thicket of Brushworks from the Forest of Ink
Other Inscriptions: (1) – Qian Weishan 錢惟善 (active 1341–ca. 1379) – forgery?3
Painting, upper left.
5 columns, running-standard script. Poem (4x5).
故人能寫竹，標格似湖州，靜對西窗下，清風滿紙秋
曲江居士題。
。
My old friend knew how to paint bamboo,
And modeled his approach upon Wen Tong.4
Calmly he gazed out the western window,
And the clear wind filled his page with fall.
Inscribed by the Retired Scholar of Crooked Creek [Qian Weishan]
Signature: 曲江居士
Qujiang jushi [Retired Scholar of Crooked Creek]
Date: none
Seals: (1)
Qujiang jushi『曲江居士』(square intaglio) – painting, upper left (partially
trimmed)

20 Total
1. Shen Zhou 沈周 (1427–1509) – (1)
Shen Zhou shenwan『沈周審玩』(square relief) – painting, lower right (partially trimmed)
2. Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590) – (7)
Molinzi『墨林子』(rectangle intaglio) – painting, upper right
Xiang Yuanbian yin『項元汴印』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Molin shanren『墨林山人』(square intaglio) – painting, lower right
Zuili『檇李』(oval relief) – painting, mid-left
Zisun yongbao『子孫永保』(square intaglio) – painting, mid-left
Xiang Zijing jiazhencang『項子京家珍藏』(rectangle relief) – painting, lower left
Xiang Molin jianshang zhang『項墨林鑑賞章』(rectangle intaglio) – painting, lower left
3. Wu Ting 吳廷 (active first-half 17th century) – (1)
Wu Ting『吳廷』(rectangle relief) – lower left
4. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1687) – (7)
Dancheng『丹誠』(circle intaglio; left half) – painting, mid right
[Duwei Geng] Xingong shuhua zhi zhang『[都尉耿]信公書畫之章』(square intaglio; left
half) – painting, lower right
Gong『公』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Xingong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – painting, bottom center
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – painting, top left
Zhen[mi]『珍[秘]』(square relief; right half) – painting, upper left
Chang yi [zisun]『長宜[子孫]』(square intaglio; right half) – painting, mid left
5. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (active late 17th–early 18th century) – (2)
Geng Jiazuo yin『耿嘉祚印』(square intaglio) – painting, bottom center
Huihou zhencang『會侯珍藏』(square intaglio) – painting, bottom center
6. Cheng Xun 成勳 (unidentified, 19th–20th century?) – (2)
Shuibu Cheng Xun『水部成勳』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Lianqiao jiancang『蓮樵鑑藏』(square relief) – painting, upper left

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)

F1915.36d

Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Pp. 13 and 34 (plate 18).
__________. “Collecting Paintings in China.” In Arts Magazine 37 (April 1963), 67.
Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (C.C. Wang, 1907–2003). “Ni Yunlin zhi hua” 倪雲林之畫. In Gugong
jikan 故宮季刊 (National Palace Museum Quarterly) 1.3 (January 1967): 38 and plate 25.
Li Lincan 李霖燦 (1913–1999). “Zhongguo mozhu huafa de duandai yanjiu” 中國墨竹畫法的斷
代研究. In Gugong jikan 故宮季刊 (National Palace Museum Quarterly) 1.4 (April 1967): 53–4
and plate 16.
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄
(Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings). 5 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo,
1982–83. Vol. 1, 239 (A21–123).
Toda Teisuke 戶田禎佑 and Ogawa Hiromitsu 小川裕充, eds. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku:
zokuhen 中國繪畫總合圖錄：續編 (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings:
Second Series). 4 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 1998–2001. Vol. 1, 129 (A21–365-4).